5 ms·
It’s a desktop, so plugging in a USB external hard drive isn’t too painful or expensive.
by _mlbt 2y ago
It’s a desktop, so plugging in a USB external hard drive isn’t too painful or expensive.
- eastbound 2y agoDockers can’t run off external drives.
- kridsdale3 2y agoWhy? Thunderbolt is PCI-E. There shouldn't be any difference between TB attached storage and adding disks to a desktop tower.
- slashdave 2y agoThat's an interesting claim. An external drive is just another block device. Is this something you experienced?
- _mlbt 2y agoSince macOS is a UNIX system, can’t you just use a symlink to the external drive or is there something specific about Docker that prevents this?
- Phrodo_00 2y agoDocker in macOS (at least the useful one) just runs in a Linux VM, and I don't see why you couldn't run a VM off an image on an external drive. Maybe the UI doesn't let you select that location?
- echoangle 2y agoThis doesn’t seem to be true, and I don’t even get what it would change if it were true. Developers aren’t the target demographic of the base version with low storage.
- adib 2y agoDocker on Mac works fine on external drive. I moved the storage volume on a rotating USB 3 drive.
- dmd 2y agoThat's news to me, who's doing it right now on my imac m1.
- pjmlp 2y agoWhich is a Linux and Windows technology anyway, so better buy something that offers first class support for them.
- talldayo 2y ago> Which is a Linux and Windows technology anyway This is quite possibly the dumbest comment I have ever read on Hacker News. Congratulations!
- nunez 2y agoSure it can!
- seec 2y agoIt's a major hassle and if you are going to get a small box to plug in all kinds of other small box around it with a web of cables, you might as well get a bigger box and put it all inside... mini-ITX case start around 3L nowadays...